Workshops

WS1 - High Capacity SDM Transmission and Systems

Objectives:
To address the recent developments in Spatial Division Multiplexing (SDM) transmission and systems, including multi-mode and multi-core fiber transmission, high-capacity and long-distance systems, and digital signal processing for SDM.

Organizers:

Ruben S. Luis – National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Georg Rademacher – University of Stuttgart, Germany

Speakers:

Michael Galili – Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark – “High-capacity data transmission using SDM”
Lauren Dallachiesa – Nokia Bell Labs, USA – “Mode multiplexed transmission in field deployed fibers”
Menno van den Hout – Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands – “Long-distance transmission using multi-mode fibers”
Stefano Grillanda – Nokia Bell Labs, USA – “Short-reach communications using arrays of surface-normal electroabsorption modulators”
Werner Klaus – NICT, Japan – “Space division multiplexing: Why, how and when – A quick glance at recent developments”
Tetsuya Hayashi – Sumitomo Electric Industries, Japan – “Uncoupled and coupled multicore fibers for optical communications”
Alberto Gatto – Politecnico di Milano – “Mode-group division multiplexing for multi-hop routing in Few-Mode Fiber metropolitan Networks”
Mikael Mazur – Nokia Bell Labs, USA – “Real-time transmission over coupled-core multi-core fibers”
Cristian Antonelli – University of L’Aquila – “Fiber infrastructure for SDM: opportunities and lessons learned”

Technically co-sponsored by the IEICE Technical Committee on EXAT:

WS2 - Analog optical processing: back in town for neuromorphic applications?

Abstract:

Photonics promise of enabling non-von Neumann computing is particularly suited for neuromorphic applications, which require low latency, high bandwidth, and low energy consumption.

However, to realize practical analog optical processors further progress is needed in materials, devices, hardware architectures, fabrication and packaging, simulation software as well as calibration and control tools, and interfacing with end users.

The workshop will be an ideal venue to discuss the latest advancements and the open challenges in the field of optical processing applied to neuromorphic computing, with a particular attention to integrated photonic implementations.

Organizers:

Prof. Giampiero Contestabile – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Dr. Nicola Andriolli – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy

Speakers:

Prof. Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, McGill University
Dr. Thomas Ferreira de Lima, NEC Laboratories America
Dr. Daniel Perez, iPronics
Prof. Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Prof. Volker Sorger, University of Florida

WS3 - Photonic devices meet softwarized networks

WPNRR RESTART Workshop of RIGOLETTO Project

September 26, 2023 colocated with Photonics in Switching and Computing 2023 (Mantova)

Final program

13:30- 13:40 – Welcome and introduction
Piero Castoldi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), PI of RIGOLETTO Project

13:40 – 15:00 – Session 1 – Novel photonic devices and optical systems – Chair: Marc Sorel (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
13:40 – 14:00 – Claudio Porzi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), “Packaged silicon photonics circuit for the generation of millimeter-wave band signals”
14:00 – 14:20 – Alberto Gullino (CNR-IEIIT, Torino), “850 nm tunnel junction VCSELs for greener high-speed intra-datacenter communications”.
14:20 – 14:40 – Martina Cappelletti (Università di Padova), “Statistical Analysis of Modal Dispersion in Installed Multi-Core Fiber”
14:40 – 15:00 – Pantea Nadimi Goki (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), “Security enhancement by identity management through optical fingerprint”

15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00 – Session 2 – Softwarized optical networks – Chair: Marianna Hovsepyan (Open Fiber S.p.A)
15:30 – 15:50 – Alessio Giorgetti (CNR-IEIIT, Pisa), “SDN-based Control Plane High-level Architecture in the RIGOLETTO project”
15:50 – 16:10 – Vittorio Curri (Politecnico di Torino), “Challenges in Obtaining Accurate Physical Layer Information for a Trustworthy Optical Transport Digital Twin”
16:10 – 16:30 – Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano), “AI-based automation for resilient optical networking in the RIGOLETTO project”
16:30 – 16:50 – Gianluca Davoli (UNIBO), “End-to-end service orchestration leveraging softwarized optical devices”

16:50 -17:00 – Wrap-up Panel
Panelists: Piero Castoldi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), Marc Sorel (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), Marianna Hovsepyan (Open Fiber S.p.A.)

WS4 - Quantum Communications and Networks Workshop

Workshop organizers:

Luis Velasco (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), Sandeep Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India), Roberto Proietti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Description:

Despite many challenges in quantum computing, developments in quantum devices, quantum key distribution (QKD), quantum cryptography, entanglement distribution, quantum repeaters and teleportation open up new near- and long-term research areas in quantum optical devices, communications protocols and future quantum internet.
This workshop will provide broad overviews of QKD systems, emerging technologies, and protocols (beyond BB84), and key emerging research areas, such as quantum cryptography and security technologies. Furthermore, it will include a discussion on quantum applications beyond QKD, quantum internet architecture and protocols, network architectures for entanglement distribution and teleportation, and quantum network deployment challenges.

Speakers & Talk Titles

13:30 – 13:40 — Welcome and Introduction — Roberto Proietti, Politecnico di Torino
13:40 – 13:55 — Cosmo Lupo — Politecnico di Bari, Italy — “The physics of quantum cryptography”
13:55 – 14:10 — Luca Poti — CNIT, Italy – “Optical Fingerprint: A Possible Direction to Physical Layer Security, Authentication, Identification, and Monitoring”
14:10 – 14:25 — Marco Secondini — Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy — “Probabilistic shaping: a practical approach to CV-QKD”
14:25 – 14:40 — Seyed Morteza Ahmadian — Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain — “Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Polarization-encoded QKD systems”
14:40 – 14:55 — Luca Della Chiesa – CISCO, Italy – “Quantum Networking vision beyond QKD applications”
15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee Break
15:30 – 15:45 — Simone Capeleto — Think Quantum, Italy – “Quantum networks deployment: today solutions and future challenges”
15:45 – 16:00 — Davide Bacco – University of Florence, Italy – “Towards a quantum internet based on multidimensional quantum states”
16:00 – 16:15 — S. J. Ben Yoo – University of California, Davis, USA – “Quantum wrapper networking”
16:15 – 16:30 — Reza Nejabati – University of Bristol, UK – “Quantum networks for distributed quantum computing”